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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:32:28 GMT

Wow. So I haven't been on here in a while but school is going great. Busy, but great. I love my friends, I love my classes, I love my schedule, I love my teachers (most of them), and I love my life right now.

So basically I'll give a rundown of my classes.
Gym is stupid this year because they're actually taking it seriously.
Chem is reaally fun so far. It's not as hard as I thought and I'm having an awesome time in lab (we just started using the Bunsen burners today). Alex is my lab partner (surprise, surpise) and I like Mrs. Badini.
Computer graphics has to be my favorite class. Me and Karen goof off the whole class, but we just started learning Illustrator and we're learning Photoshop next quarter. It's great because graphic design must be my #1 hobby and I love having a class devoted to it.
Programming pretty fun too so far, though we haven't actually done any Java work.
English is cool because I have Katie, Ashley, and Amanda in my class and we all sit together and Mr. Beers is entertaining in like a really stupid way. I still hate English, but I guess that class isn't so bad.
I have A lunch most days, which I was psyched about until I found out I had like 4 friends in it with me. The D-Day lunch crowd is cooler, even though it's B lunch.
Calculus. Wow. On the first day Mrs. O'Brien went on and on for about 15 minutes about how hard it would be. But it's not so hard so far, considering it's my only AP class, but maybe it's because we learned most of the stuff before. My class is a bit more entertaining this year though. I'm looking forward to it though.
French is just amazing. I sit with Luisa, Kaellen, and Erica and that class is just so much fun. I love the people in it and I love Madame.
History is probably the class I hate the most, because of two reasons: I can't stand US history because I find it boring as hell, and I can tell Mr. Reno already hates me. Glad I didn't take AP and took it last year for world history.

I signed up for like 9753 clubs including Mathletes, drama club, JSA, French club, forensics club, yearbook, and maybe Essence (I actually can't stand that thing, but I might submit some graphic art to it, if I can). I'm also doing Driver's Ed, which starts on Monday.

I went to the yearbook photography meeting today and our assignment was to take as many pictures around school and sports and stuff over the next week, which I'm looking forward to. I might be doing some designing and/or photo editing for the yearbook later in the year too.

I don't really have time to talk about anything else, cause there is more to talk about. I gotta go do homework, get my camera ready for tomorrow, etc. So later =]

Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:27:50 GMT

Tomorrow=1st day of school
bleh.

I got woken up at 7:00 this morning by the evil construction people in my house. We just got started redoing the bathrooms and we have no running water on for most of the day and the house is filled with loud banging noises. It's not cool at all.

Tonight I have the orientation thingy at school where we get our planners and locker assignments and get to put our stuff in our lockers. I can't believe we're actually gonna be juniors. Like after this year, there will be only one more time we get to do all the fun things we do every year at LuHi. And then college. And then everything changes. It just really hit me yesterday that I take SATs in the spring. I always thought they were such a long way off, but now they're right around the corner. And we get to go to prom this year. Wow. This is gonna gonna be a tough year, but I think I'm ready.

But what I was gonna say was this orientation is gonna make me miss the season premiere of House tonight. I'll have to tape it. But I am really obsessed with this show lately. I never really liked medical dramas, or even dramas, but there's something about this show. I think it's the character House. He's incredibly sarcastic (and funny at times), mean to all his patients, and just doesn't seem to care, but he's a genius and ends up saving their lives (most of the time). I guess I'm drawn to people like that. Hugh Laurie is a fantastic actor. I rented discs 2 & 3 of season 1, because they're to expensive to buy, in my opinion and I'll probably never have time to watch them again with school starting.

I really ranted a lot.
Who knows when I'll update this again. I may be buried in homework until the end of the week =[

EDIT_3:31PM

I forgot to say this when I was writing before, but The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin died and I'm really sad because he was really cool and did a lot for animal conservation.
R.I.P. STEVE IRWIN =[

Friday, September 01, 2006

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 15:34:36 GMT

Hmmm. I don't really have much to say.

*I have to go to school on Wednesday.

*And I bought leg warmers that are really cool.

*The VMAs suck.

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:28:42 GMT

Time: 1:22 PM
Day: Thursday, August 24th, 2006
Weather: Pretty sunny out. It's nice.
Mood: Relaxed.
Music: Looking for a Kiss by The New York Dolls

Don't you love it when life is just slow and easy? Because that's kind of how mine is right now. I really haven't done anything since I got back and I love it. It just sucks because school starts next Wednesday and it's all gonna end abruptly.

My new cell phone arrived yesterday. It's a Motorola L2. It won't activate =[ My Kangaroos came too and they look awesome, but I'm not gonna wear them till the first day of school so they look fabulous for school.

Tomorrow I think I'll be hanging out with Luisa and Ashley and then Mike's annual block party is on Saturday. And I'm hoping Katie, Amanda, and I can do some sort of Q-Zar or Adventureland outing next week.

Lately, I cannot get The Smiths' Singles CD out of my CD player. My dad gave me one of their albums a couple weeks ago and I liked it and decided to buy their Singles and now I'm hooked. Morrissey is a genius.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:39:22 GMT

I'm back.
I know you're all thrilled.

Anyway the cruise was amazing! I miss it a lot and want to go again. We went to the Caribbean- Turks & Caicos, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. John, and Bermuda. I took endless amounts of pictures that I plan to post eventually. Maybe. AND I ran into my old friend Mona on the cruise! It was so awesome seeing her again and we hung out a lot.

ALSO, on Saturday I finally went to see Sweeney Todd with Katie, Danny, and Amanda. We ate at Carmine's and then walked to the theatre. We had front row seats and it was soo cool because the actors came right up to you. Anyway, the show was really great and I'd make everyone go see it if it wasn't going off Broadway September 3rd =[ Katie and Danny had backstage passes and I guess met the whole cast? But me and Amanda had to leave to go to the Chelseas' Sweet 16, which was on the beach and it was a lot of fun and we had a great time.

Today is Joe Strummer's birthday and I'm listening to all my Clash CD's in celebration. Because me and Alex were supposed to have a party or something but I never got to talk to him about it. Oh well.

EDIT8/22_10:56AM

Cruise Pictures!
(I took so many pictures, so for this I only picked my favorite ones)

The Verrazano bridge as we left out of New York. It was pretty funny because the boat just barely fit under the bridge.

One of the pools.

A pretty picture I took while we were eating breakfast. Turks & Caicos are outside the window.

The ship taken from the beach on Turks & Caicos. (we went power snorkeling on a different beach that I wasn't able to get any pictures of- the reefs there were beautiful).

A cool picture I took on the way back to the ship.

A flower in the rainforest of Puerto Rico.

A palm tree in that same rainforest.

The path we walked on during our trip to the rainforest.

The waterfall. Me and my brother climbed the rocks on it. We were also allowed to drink the water and it tasted AMAZING.

That's me on the waterfall. A really bad picture of me.

The streets of Old San Juan. There was even a Starbucks there!

There was a party on the ship that night.

On the catamaran we took from St. Thomas to St. John. This is where we were docked at St. John. We went snorkeling and the water was really really clear.

The beach we went to in St. John. I was really, really sad I couldn't take my camera on the beach because we were docked off shore and had to swim to the beach. But that beach was seriously one of the most beautiful beaches I've been to.

Back on the docks at St. Thomas.

The champagne waterfall they had the next night. I didn't stay for the whole thing, but it must have taken them forever to fill that whole thing up.

As we got off the ship in Bermuda.

The thing in the foreground is the top of a shipwreck which we got to look at through a glass bottom boat. That island in the background marks the apex of the Bermuda Triangle.

We went snorkeling by a coral reef. But there were so many jellyfish, everyone was getting stung.

The bungalow houses on the water with the traditional Bermudian white roofs.

One of the dining rooms.

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 18:06:48 GMT

This is gonna be my last entry before I leave on Monday.

Pluses and minuses:
+I can't wait till the cruise on Monday.
+I finally saw The Filth and the Fury on VH1 Classic the other day.
+I ran into Luisa at the mall and we went to the bookstore.
+I'm seeing Talladega Nights tonight and I'm really really excited.
+I'm almost done with my self-portrait I made in Photoshop.
+On August 19th, Katie, Danny, and I have front row seats and backstage passes to Sweeney Todd.
-Only me and Amanda don't know what we're gonna do because we have a sweet sixteen later that day.
-We go back to school in about a month (then again, that could be a plus cause I really miss seeing everyone everyday).
-I don't think I can survive any longer with my broken cell phone.
-I have a headache.
-I get like no comments and there's never anything new when I read my subcriptions

Yeah. There's about 98754 people on my buddy list at Warped Tour right now. I don't understand all the hype. Warped Tour used to be really good up until like a year ago.

See you all on August 16th =]

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:08:34 GMT

So I went to Ransom Beach Sunday evening and took pictures and I thought I would share some of my favorites. Tell me what you think (none of these are photoshopped):

In other news, I went shopping for stuff for the cruise, for which I am leaving August 7th, on Monday. I went to Tower Records yesterday and picked up The Clash Rude Boy which came out on DVD for the first time in the US. Then I hung out at Barnes & Noble.

I really want to go driving again this week.
I need to put my permit to use.

Oh I already picked out the shoes I want to get for the upcoming school year. I was gonna get brown Converses but I decided to be different and get these:

Kangaroos. Those should stand out against our uniforms.

Later.

Saturday, July 29, 2006

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:33:35 GMT

love in the middle of a firefight

honey gotta strike a plan

somebody gotta save my soul

baby, tell 'em, take my mind

I'll update later/tomorrow with pictures.

EDIT7/28_1:59PM

Pikchaaas from Ashley's Sweet 16 (these are all the best ones:

Me and the birthday girl!

Me and the other Ashley.

Me and Katie

Katie looks excited.

And she's feeding the fishies.

Danny!

Awww Chris and Katie.

People dancing (hiii Ashley and Emily =])

From the back: Dan, CJ, Miles, someone I don't know, Erica, Ashley, Sam.

Kristina and Shellyyyy.

Me and Mike!

Me and Alex!

Yep.
I hope I get to go to the city this weekend...

EDIT7/28_1:59PM

I think I'll put up some pretty photographs I took from the boat.
(I didn't do anything to these in Photoshop)

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 21:05:35 GMT

Hmmmm.

So it appears that I can get on here once again.

Maybe I'll start this thing up again.

I wonder if anyone will give me comments?

EDIT4:45PM

I think 2 comments is enough to convince me to revive this Xanga. So let's get this show on the road. Hopefully my computer won't go weird again and not let me on (so don't be surprised if I leave without warning).

So what have I been doing?

I found my old Game Boy color a couple days ago. It was really cool because I was proud to know I still had my level 100 Blastoise on Pokemon Blue haha. But I've actually been playing the original Mario Bros. on it but I can't beat world 8-2 =[

I bought this reaaally cool pillow at Bed Bath and Beyond today. It plugs into my iPod (which is miraculously still alive) and plays music:

Ashley's sweet 16 is tomorrow night. It's on a boat and it will surely be fun. I can't wait to see everyone.

^That picture of The Clash intrigued me when I saw it today.

These are my crazy friends.

Oh yeah, this is my schedule for next year. If you go to my school, tell me if we have anything together.

Set 1- PE 10/11
Set 2- Chemistry Honors
Set X- Computer Graphics

Set 3- Intro to Programming
Set 4- English 11H
Set 5- Chemistry Honors Lab
Set 6- AP Calculus AB
Set 7- French IV
Set 8- US History and Government H

As you can see I'm in all the nerd classes.

PS- I don't think I'll be updating as often this time around but my entries will probably be more interesting. Hah.

Monday, November 14, 2005

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 12:39:38 GMT

I had the bestest weekend.

Thursday- Saw Sweet Charity with the drama club. I didn't like it. But it was fun because we got to walk through the city and eat at Sbarro's.

Friday- Had play practice at 8AM-12. Then I went to Amanda's and we got on the train and went to the city! We met Ashley and An and Amanda's dad at Penn Station. Then we walked down to West 24th St. We found the club place and we walked in and we met the lead singer of Evermore (a band that Amanda knows from Pennsylvania). They got us in for only $10 and then we watched them play. They were really awesome. After a while we went out to dinner with the whole band. We went to Panchito's in Greenwich Village. It was a great night.

Saturday- Play practice. Went to Burger King with Katie, Danny, and Amanda. Then went to the football game.

I'm in Intro right now. And I get to be in the chapel skit todayyyyyyyy.

Yeah.

I think I'll edit this maybe later.